ORD. XXXV. Ascyroidece. 589 
-FRAXINUS ORNUS, FLOWERING ASH, 
SYNONYMA,  Fraxinus tenuiore & minore folio, Bauh. Hist. 
i. p. 177. Fraxinus humilior sive altera Theophrasti, minore & © 
tenuiore folio. Banh. Pin, p. 416. © Fraxinus Ornus, foliolis 
setratis, floribus corollatis. — Lin. Sp. Plant. -Mannifera arbor. 
Succus condensatus est Manna. » Pharm, Lond. & Edinb. 
Class Poly gamia. Ord. Dinecia Piz. Gor Plant. 1160. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Hermaphrod. Cal. 0, s. 4- _partitus, or 0,s, 4-petala. 
Stam. 2. Pist. 1. Sem. 1, lanceolatum. 
Fem. Pist. 1, lanceolatum. 
Sp. Ch. F. foliis ovato-oblongis serratis petiolatis, floribus corol- 
= Hort. Ker. 
THIS tree greatly resembles our comt on ash: it is s loly. much 
branched, and covered with a greyish bark. ung s shoots. 
produce the leaves, which are pinnated, opposite, pond consist ‘of 
several pair of pinna, or small leaves, terminated by an odd one, 
pointed, serrated, veined, standing upon footstalks, of an oval or 
oblong shape, and bright green dares The flowers grow in close 
thick ‘hranahied spikes, and open in May and June. In the spe- 
cimen we have figured, the flowers were all hermaphrodite; the 
corolla divided into four narrow whitish segments, somewhat 
longer than the stamina; the two filaments tapering, and crowned 
with large furrowed erect anthere ; the germen oval, and a little 
Comiaecised : the style short and cylindrical ; the capsule is Tenge 
flat, membranous, and contains a single flat pointed seed. a 
This tree is a native of the southern parts ¢ of Europe, particulary 
No. 47.—Vvou. 4. TK 
